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Dactylus: Latin Verse, One Line at a Time
A free browser app that teaches Latin metre through lessons, drills and hands-on scansion of classical poems.
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- Latin students practising classical metre
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- The homepage describes 510 lines across three metres, with every scansion checked by hand rather than generated.
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The exercise asks learners to mark syllable quantity, elisions, feet and caesurae, then compares their work with a curated scansion and points to a missed rule. The homepage lists twelve lessons and twelve drills, covering forms from hexameter to hendecasyllables. It describes 510 lines from named classical poets and says each scansion is checked by hand.
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